TCF Capital Funding hired Mason Valadez as senior associate and LeeAnn Racevice as a collateral analyst.

Valadez will be involved in all aspects of screening, due diligence, underwriting and monitoring of leveraged loans to support lower middle market private equity and entrepreneur–owned buyouts, recaps and refinancings.

Prior to joining TCF, Mason was an associate at The Private Bank and prior to that a credit analyst at First Bank & Trust.

Racevice joined the operations team and will act as a liaison between the customer and relationship manager and will provide monitoring and operational support related to collateral, loan advances and pay downs, deposit accounts, covenant tracking and loan closing and funding.

Prior to joining TCF, LeeAnn was a credit administrator with GE Capital and prior to that held positions with CIT Business Credit and Freemont Financial.

“By bringing on high quality hires like Mason and LeeAnn and expanding our TCF Capital Funding team, we are further prepared to meet the growing needs of our expanding national client base. We are thrilled that they elected to join us,” said Joe Gaffigan, TCF Capital Funding’s president.